Having trouble to start Paraview

ParaView Support
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Hello,

I am currently experiencing trouble starting Paraview on my newly built Linux Station. For the hardware my graphics card is AMD Radeon Pro WX7100, for system I have LInux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon 4.2.4. I tried to start Paraview in terminal and it popped up for half second and closed up with the following errors:

The directory /util/paraview/bin has been temporarily
added to your path for this shell session.

Here are the programs available in that directory:
paraview paraview-config pvbatch pvdataserver pvpython pvrenderserver pvserver

If you need to restart the graphical version, type: paraview

libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
X Error: GLXBadContext 170
Extension: 155 (Uknown extension)
Minor opcode: 6 (Unknown request)
Resource id: 0x5c000c9
X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
Extension: 155 (Uknown extension)
Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request)
Resource id: 0x0
ERROR: In /wakko/yearke/work/projects/ParaView/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 633
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3a6a5e0): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting.

Abort (core dumped)

Any help will be appreciated! Thank you!

2

Looks like a graphic driver issue. What is the output of glxinfo ?
Which version of ParaView are you trying to run ?

3

I am not entirely sure which version of Paraview I have, my school IT dept installed it, it seems like either 4.3.1 or 5.2.0.

for glxinfo, the following showed on terminal when I put in the command, it is too long so I am going to break it out to a couple reply:

name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
Device: AMD Radeon ™ Pro WX 7100 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.23.0, 4.15.0-54-generic, LLVM 8.0.0) (0x67c4)
Version: 19.0.8
Accelerated: yes
Video memory: 8192MB
Unified memory: no
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 4.5
Max compat profile version: 4.5
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB
Total available memory: 16384 MB
Currently available dedicated video memory: 7636 MB
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon ™ Pro WX 7100 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.23.0, 4.15.0-54-generic, LLVM 8.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 19.0.8
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50

8

Can you try with ParaView 5.7.0 ?

https://www.paraview.org/download/

9

Hello, I don’t think it has anything to do with the paraview version, it is the same version installed in all machines in my school, the only things that my machine differs from the others is the system Mint (as oppose to Centos) and the AMD card (as oppose to NVIDIA)

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Sorry, no AMD card to reproduce your issue with.